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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said people found “guilty” for the deadly train crash in India will receive the “harshest punishment”. At least 288 people were killed and more than 850 injured in Friday’s accident in Odisha’s Balasore district state. On his visit to the crash site on Saturday, Mr Modi also pledged to look

One person is dead and at least nine have been injured after a large fire at a seven-storey building in Rome. The blaze, in the capital’s eastern Colli Aniene area on Friday afternoon, is now under control and firefighters are inspecting the building to find anyone who might be trapped inside. The body of the

Many people are feared dead and hundreds of others have been injured after a train crash in eastern India. At least 50 people have reportedly been killed after a passenger train derailed and collided with a goods train in Odisha’s Balasore district. Rescuers were attempting to free 200 people feared trapped in the derailed coaches,

At least 233 people have been killed after at least two trains were involved in a crash in eastern India. The collision happened about 130 miles southwest of Kolkata in Odisha’s Balasore district on Friday evening. Between 10 and 12 carriages of one train derailing and debris falling on to a nearby track, according to

A woman has died more than two decades after a terror attack left her in a coma. Hana Nachenberg was 31 and dining at a Jerusalem pizza restaurant with her three-year-old daughter when a Palestinian suicide bomber walked in and blew himself up. Fifteen others, including eight children, were also killed in the attack, which

Police investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann “seized a number of items” during last week’s search operation in a Portuguese reservoir. The latest searches in Portugal were carried out after requests from German investigators. In June 2020, German police said that they believed Madeleine was dead and that suspect Christian B was likely responsible. In

New anti-LGBTQ+ laws have been passed in Uganda, expanding on rules which already criminalised same-sex acts and carried a maximum penalty of life imprisonment. The new anti-homosexuality law now makes “aggravated homosexuality” – which is defined as sexual relations involving people infected with HIV, as well as with those under 18, and other categories of

Vladimir Putin has called Tuesday’s drone attack in Moscow a “terrorist” act by Ukraine. Kyiv has denied responsibility for the assault but what can be learnt from the evidence online? Where did it happen? By verifying and locating videos posted to social media, Sky News has visually confirmed three apartment buildings in the Russian capital

Sitting on the Dnipro River in Russian-occupied Ukraine is Europe’s largest nuclear power station – on the frontline of a worsening war. Over a period of a few weeks we spoke to two workers at the Zaporizhzhia plant. And the warnings they gave of what could happen should send a cold chill around the world.

Russia has blamed Ukraine for a drone attack on Moscow that it said caused minor damage to buildings and injured two people. The defence ministry said Kyiv was behind the “terrorist attack”, but Ukraine denied the claim. “Eight aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles were involved in the attack. All enemy drones are hit,” said the ministry.

The central patch of Sudan and Chad’s 869-mile border is a dried river bed of wet light sand and large puddles of water. Large boulders and desert hills mark the Chadian side of the valley. Under many of its thorn trees are new Sudanese refugees, fleeing the brutal ongoing violence in their border town. The

The sun beats down on us. I’m sweating, and there is noise from every angle. Two marine engines thrum behind me, churning the water of the Mediterranean. You can smell the salt, but also the plastic of our boat, warmed by the early afternoon. Cloudless skies. I can hear shouts, cries, and also words of

Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy have joined world leaders in congratulating Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan on his election win. In a letter to president Erdogan celebrating his narrow run-off victory on Sunday, Mr Putin addressed the Turkish leader as “Dear Friend” and praised his efforts at strengthening Russian-Turkish relations. “From the bottom of my

Paris St Germain goalkeeper Sergio Rico is in intensive care following a riding accident. The French football club confirmed reports that Rico is in the ICU at a hospital in Seville. The 29-year-old Spaniard joined PSG in 2020 after a season-long loan at the club. He previously played in the Premier League with Fulham. Advertisement

Serbia has condemned NATO-led peacekeepers in neighbouring Kosovo for allegedly failing to stop “brutal actions” by Kosovo’s police against ethnic Serbs. More than a dozen people were injured in violent clashes on Friday. The violence erupted when ethnic Serbs tried to block recently elected Albanian mayors from entering local government buildings. Police fired tear gas

The 41-degree heat rises like steam from every rock and roof but as sunset approaches the sky breaks into a thunderstorm. A woman, deep in a latrine, pauses her digging to run under a corrugated zinc roof held up by a square wooden frame for shelter from the rain. It is her new home in

F-16s are on the way to Ukraine. US President Joe Biden‘s approval of the move at the G7 conference will certainly provide Ukraine with some much-needed aerial firepower – but combat air power is heavily dependent on modern technology and some F-16s are vintage jets. When the F-16 Fighting Falcon first flew in the late

Brian Laundrie’s mother offered him “a shovel and garbage bags” if he needed to dispose of a body, according to a “burn after reading” letter, court documents show. The parents of Laundrie’s fiancee Gabby Petito have been given the letter after a Florida judge denied a request from his parents to withhold it. The Petitos

The head of the Wagner Group says his forces have started pulling out of Bakhmut and are handing over control to the Russian military. It comes days after Yevgeny Prigozhin said mercenaries from his private military had captured the city in eastern Ukraine. Ukraine war latest: British troops ‘to prevent Russian invasion’ of European country

Police are photographing an excavation site near the banks of a remote reservoir in Portugal as the new search for Madeleine McCann enters a third day. Teams were seen early on Thursday cutting wood on the banks of a reservoir 30 miles from where the toddler went missing in the Algarve in May 2007. Officers